Harry Reid has taken steps towards cleaning up the corruption in Congress with a bold move. He has banned all of his staff from accepting gifts from lobbyists. Via Raw Story: In a memo last night, Reid chief of staff Susan McCue instructed Reid staffers not to accept any gifts from lobbyists. The move is […]
Harry Reid has taken steps towards cleaning up the corruption in Congress with a bold move. He has banned all of his staff from accepting gifts from lobbyists. Via Raw Story: In a memo last night, Reid chief of staff Susan McCue instructed Reid staffers not to accept any gifts from lobbyists. The move is […]
In keeping the NSA spying story alive, the New York Times gives us a more detailed look today into how the NSA assumed their powers: WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 – The National Security Agency acted on its own authority, without a formal directive from President Bush, to expand its domestic surveillance operations in the weeks after […]
Here’s a nice little exchange of written words between Dennis Hastert and Nancy Pelosi in regards to the budget cut bills. It started last night when Hastert sent the followingletter to Pelosi to try and speed up the legislation on the budget cuts that were passed in Senate yesterday with Cheney’s tie breaking vote: The […]
Last night I was watching Hardball. David Gregory was filling in for Chris Mattews. During one of the last segments, Gregory had Jean Schmidt on. Jean is the Republican running for Ohio’s second congressional district in a special election this coming Tuesday. Her opponent is Democrat Paul Hackett, a Marine Major who recently returned from […]